Behaeddin Shakir

Behaeddin Shakir (1874-17 April 1922) was a founder of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Ottoman Empire who was assassinated in Operation Nemesis.

Biography
Behaeddin Shakir was born in 1874 in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, and he was one of the founding members of the Committee of Union and Progress. During World War I, he negotiated an alliance with the Musavat party of Azerbaijan during the Armenian-Azerbaijani War, and 30,000 Armenians were massacred in the September Days during the Battle of Baku. He had also been accused of being responsible for transporting Armenians to their deaths, and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation decided to track him down and assassinate him in Operation Nemesis. On 17 April 1922, Shakir was killed by Aram Yerganian and Arshavir Shirakian alongside Cemal Azmi in Berlin, Germany.